This book provides essential knowledge and skills to address all the new social work education requirements for placements and practice learning. It will help students to successfully pass their compulsory social work placement whilst meeting the Professional Capabilities Framework (PCF) for Social Workers and developing their professional practice.

An Invitation to Cultural Psychology looks at the everyday life worlds of human beings through the lens of a new synthetic perspective in cultural psychology - that of semiotic dynamics.

It provides a snapshot of current practice in professional reflection in a practical and manageable way

This book is the perfect introduction to a thinker many students can find challenging. Foucault is the last great intellectual in the social sciences - people need to understand him.

Designed to help students make the best start in their research career, this high practical step-by-step guide considers the ethical implications which arise at each stage of the research process and provides students with the tools they need to become confident, skilled researchers.

Designed to equip those doing research with the knowledge and tools they need to inform their methodological decisions when planning and conducting studies, this book describes both commonly used methods for health intervention research and outlines the theoretical reasoning underlying these different approaches.

The first international study of the Forest School approach and how it's used across the world.

Addressing the practicalities of research, and embracing the complexity and variety of written forms of language, this book helps readers with practical and conceptual tools to ask questions about written discourse, and to analyse the huge variety of texts that make up our linguistic landscape.

Conducting a competent assessment and case formulation can be a daunting task for trainee therapists engaging in clinical assessment for the first time. This book is designed to help, by unpicking the many aspects involved in assessment and case formulation across modalities, practice settings and client groups.